132 PHILOSOPHY OF STORMS. 



From the National Gazette of the 20th. 



Cape Island, March 18th. I cannot describe to you the 

 horrors of last night. The rain fell in torrents, and the 

 wind, N. E., blew such a gale that it baffles all description. 

 On yesterday afternoon the wind was increasing, with rain, 

 hail, and snow. 



From the Commercial Herald and Pennsylvania Sentinel of the 20th. 



Norfolk, 36 51' N., 76 19' W., 18th March. The wind 

 continues from N. to N. E. It rained nearly all day, yes- 

 terday, the 17th. 



From the same paper of the 22d. 



Fifteen schooners at Little Egg Harbor dragged their 

 anchors. 



From the same paper of the 27th. 



Arrived, ship Sabina, 50 days from Rio de Janeiro. Had 

 been off the Capes of Delaware in thick fog from the 21st. 

 Experienced tremendous gales from W. S. W. on the 17th 

 and 18th March. 



From other papers not recollected. 



Schooner Caroline, in a gale on the 18th, lat. 40 24', 

 long. 72 12', lost a man overboard. 



Brig Russel, lat. 38, long. 73, lost stern boat and davits 

 on the 18th, during a severe N. E. gale. 



Packet ship North America arrived at New York on the 

 18th. She had to heave too from Sunday morning till Mon- 

 day morning, (that is, from the 18th till the 19th) during 

 which time it blew a gale E. N. E. outside the Hook. 



From the Baltimore American of the 20th. 



The fall of snow on the 17th and 18th, was deeper to the 

 west than at this place. The mail carriage, which was de- 

 spatched from Frederick, west, with eight horses attached 

 to it, was so effectually impeded by the snow, that the 



